December 2009
4 posts
My strange Q & A with the editor who said: We must...
Sunday night on Twitter, a link made the rounds among people I follow. It was to an editorial in a web publication called The Digital Journalist, entitled: Let’s Abolish ‘Citizen Journalists’. Now I’ve been tracking varieties of this disdain for years, but this struck me and others as a particularly vivid—in fact, imperious—expression of it.
Citizen journalist...
WatchMy 18-minute interview with Laura Flanders of GritTV. Among the explanations on offer:
* what to do about journalism school;
* what citizen journalism is, really;
* what a “problem solving” approach to health care coverage would be like;
* how the Church of the Savvy operates (that’s my name for the insiders in the press corps who to try to impress us with their detached,...
